How do I deal with light effect?

For illustrating what I mean look at attachment from game Kingdom

okay well, i guess you seek sthing similar to this right ?

It's a shorter tutorial to make sthing similar to your needs i guess

https://vocal.media/gamers/how-to-create-lighting-effect-in-construct-2-and-3

Hope it helps :)

ps: when they say "attach the light object to the player", just attach it to your torch/campfire object if you want sthing similar to your screenshot

Okey I read more tutorials and according to advance example: Shadows blending multiple lights and older tutorial about it, is here:

construct.net/en/tutorials/multiple-colored-shadow-casting-lights-1107

It works great, I am using only lights (no shadows) so I can add lights to only one layer with additive blend mode and then main graphic layer put above it and set effect Multiply and it works as you can see in my example modified test project :)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NNRQU-v34KcqT1jgwgdcsC_luzbD8sE-/view?usp=sharing

but there is still problem then I cannot make it works with more layers or I would like to make two independent light layers I mean back layer with sun/moon affect only that back layer with light (because it is far away) and then there will be front layer/layers with own light sources, is there any trick for it?

I will add pictures from my test project to describe it better

Here you can see working setup but only 1 light layer affecting 1 main layer (100% parallax)

When I move Light layer under next main layer (80% parallax) to have two layers affected by one Light layer, it is not working with that Multiply, so what have to be changed to work correctly?

Then I want another layers under it but not affected by this Light layer (there are far away = low parallax of layer)... and have there another Light layer (light from moon etc) to which affected only these back layers, is it possible?

I know it may sounds little bit more complicated (in particular from my description because English is not my native lang) but I do not know how to achieve similar situation like at game Kingdom, so please advice will be great or can I ask Ashley who is the author of that tutorial.

Well, i dont know if it's what you want, i'm not even sure to understand your issue xD

To keep your initial capture from kingdom new lands as an example,

It's not working if you have this layer order ? (from back to front)

1/ Moon + stars etc

2/ moon light

3/ Clouds

4/ Rocks

etc

my guess is, as long as the moon light layer is not in front of the cloud layer, the moon light should appear like it's far from the clouds isnt it ?

ps: bcs u're using a beta release of construct i cant open your c3p sorry

ps2: sorry if it's not relevant, i'm not sure to understand your issue :/

Try to start it in web browser and at this link:

https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/releases/beta/r229

you can start latest beta version and in it open my test project

Thanks for your answers and effort I know it is complicate and hard to explain but again I will try to specify it better. :))

As you wrote (from back to front) + my extension:

1/ Moon, sky (affected by light from layer 2)

2/ moon LIGHT (this light layer 2 will affect only layer 1)

3/ Clouds (not affected by any light)

4/ Rocks (not affected by any light)

5/ Trees, stones, decor assets etc (near to main layer for example with parallax 90% should be affected by light from layer 7)

6/ Main layer with player, interactive objects, light objects (lamp, torch etc... should be affected by light from layer 7)

7/ main LIGHT (another light layer and there is a problem how to do it and make it independent to moon LIGHT layer 2... should affect both 5 and 6 layers)

8/ front layer (not affected by any light) for example parallax 120% like closer to camera so light from layer 7 should not affect it

I hope it will be more clear at this model situation, thanks in advance for any tips. :)

What u think ? is this what you need ?

just add a "moon" on the layer 0

and add light for this moon on layer 50

and defined layer 0 and 50 with the same paralax values

Also i deleted a background on "main" layer (defined as transparent) and i removed the multiply effect on some layers

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1618db2eujmyiaa/testLight.c3p?dl=0

as you can see if you jump near the "moon", the light of the character is in front of the light of the moon

also, i've added a "cloud" in layer80 as a proof of concept

didnt do all of you need but it's a good start to continue like that i guess, no ?

As it mentioned here from Ashley

construct.net/en/tutorials/multiple-colored-shadow-casting-lights-1107

"you can only apply this kind of lighting to a single background layer. Other layers on top cannot have this lighting applied, since by the time they are rendered the background already has the light map applied. It's sort of "baked in" to the image by then, and you can only multiply with the final result, which isn't very useful"

It seems like an answer that it is not possible so I will try different approach with black layer and Destination out light sources maybe add little color to light by additive effect and try to fake somehow that parallax movement in other layers. It will not be perfect and same situation like at that game Kingdom but maybe it will be enough. At image below you can see the light that affect all layers under it I would like to have bottom layer not affected etc.

I will let you know here when I will make it up something working.

I am starting from this state with that Destination out ;)

So here is my better progress with more layers and objects, you can try to make something with this version. It is more clear from it what I want to achieve.

I fake parallax 0% of moon layer to set layer 100% and add + ViewportLeft to X coordination of moon so result is the same and I can add light to moon (into light layer with parallax 100%)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LRbEvZuMlX6mc2pKPvkqQGUENdVAg4qa/view?usp=sharing

I need to make these lights independent any tips anyone? :)) Now all lights are at front and affects all layers under it and of course it is incorrect, for example light from moon should be only at back and not affect main layer etc but how to make it??

last idea for me ^^

maybe you could add a black sprite on the moon light layer to "hide" the light when needed ?

but you'll need a dedicated moon light layer for that i guess, to avoir the hiding of the others lights